Title: Just the Girl

Date: 8/9/09

Word Count: 413

Genre(s): Humor, romance

Characters: Ashitaka, Kuroku, Toki

Summary: It really is no wonder that Ashitaka fell so hard for San if he finds this to be attractive.

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"You should have seen her," Ashitaka said to Kuroku, "it was amazing."

"What are you two talking about?" Toki asked as she entered hers and Kuroku's house that Ashitaka had been staying at for reconstruction.

"I went and visited San today."

"U-huh," Toki said as she sat next to her husband, un-affected with his adorable puppy-love face as she'd seen it almost ever time the Princess' name was so much as mentioned.

"We ended up at the river, and we were talking," he started.

"Sounds romantic," Toki said with a bland voice as she took the bowl of rice that Kuroku had been eating for herself. He did a slight whimper of protest but she gave him a glare, and he stood down right away. He knew from experience not to deal with her after one of her shifts.

"And my stomach growls," Ashitaka goes on, unaffected by Toki's unattentiveness and Kuroku's sulking, "So she suddenly wades into the river and starts standing there, still as a statue, when suddenly her arm juts into the water and her hand comes out with a fish."

At the idea of someone catching a fish out of quickly moving water, barehanded at that, both Toki and Kuroku's attention was caught and Kuroku said, "That is amazing."

"No, no," Ashitaka shook his head, "That's not the really impressive part."

Toki's eyes narrowed and asked, "Whatcha mean?"

"So she comes back to me with the fish and bites the fish's head clean off."

Kuroku and Toki blinked before Kuroku gagged.

"And then she gives it to me, still wiggling and all, to eat. It was breath taking," Ashitaka ended.

"It was breath taking how she bit off the fish's head?" Toki asked, the bridge of her nose crinkling up as if she'd smelled something bad.

"Absolutely. And the fish tasted good, too."

"Did you eat it raw?" Kuroku asked as he put a hand to his mouth, the graphic image of San biting and then spitting out the head of a fish looping around in his head.

"After I descaled it with my teeth, yes," Ashitaka said with a soft smile, those teeth he'd just been talking about appearing with the gesture. "But San, she's just so..." he drifted off before shaking his head, not knowing what words would express what he had felt.

The youth was so much in his own world that he didn't hear Toki whisper to Kuroku, "They really are meant for each other."

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A/N: Yes, it is humanly possible do both things as one of my fishing friend did it one time and once I got over the initial, you know, holy **** on a ****ing sandwich with a side of ****!!! reaction, it was really amazing :B